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Triple Play Makes Nation’s Capital News

Posted on September 28, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

From CKGUY of Chicago-past: Last night I (Bill) was drifting off to sleep when Yankees announcer John Sterling said some words I’ve never heard before at a game or watching a game on television or listening to the radio. IT’S … Continue reading →

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One More Game

Posted on September 28, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

There is a certain element of denial at the end of the baseball season. Spring and summer have ended with it. A piece of us dies. Who wants to face this? (I waited all season to see a triple play, … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Mariano Rivera

Posted on September 14, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Under a Yeatsean full moon, beneath the Rabbit On The Moon (as I have been taught), in Seattle, a franchise against which he first revealed his greatness on a post-Yom Kippur night in October 1995, Mariano Rivera scored the six-hundredth … Continue reading →

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